Burnt Out Studios is a Go!!

Weeks in planning me, Luis Rodriguez and Mike Grant with collaboration of two amazing artist have created a small indie studio creating XNA games. The Devs are currently working on the Burnt Out Engine. With spring break just starting we will have enough time to create this awesome engine. Hopefully by the end of spring break we will have a complete engine ready just to add assets and game play.
So stay tuned.

Animations

This month we begin coding for out final project game, App Attack.
While we have 7 coders and 7 artist. while most have been working on front end menus and some of the data managment, I have been working close with the engine.I decided to work on skin animation for our game, which requires alot of animations.It was something I was not strong coding, nether is the group im in, but i decided to take the challange and takle it down. after 2 weeks of hard work i managed to solve some of the problems i had, and also implement blending.Here is a sample video of what i have done. Enjoy!
More to come with our game soon.

Global Game Jam 2010

Yesterday was the beginning of the Global Game Jam event, 35+ countries are working together to make a fun and great game, Full Sail holds the most people in North America.There are total of 800 games being made ATM till Sunday.
Currently we are working on a game on Torque 2D its been a challange to learn the scripting within the time limit we have but we got a solid game and a great team and hope to work with them again one day.

App Attack!

Well we got our game to work on for the next 5 months,
it's a 3rd person action adventure with a twist, more details about the plot and game and come concept art will go up soon.

Final Project Pitches

While two more days to go for our final project pitches, it's kinda crazy that our group love both game ideas.First one being a RPG table top game, and second a action adventure that the character will be using his cell phone apps to kill appliances. Tomorrow is our practice pitch in Public speaking class so we can get some feedback on how we did,and Tuesday is D-day. Well will see in couple days what we get.

XNA Project "another Music game"

Currently working a XNA project with a team, for a Indie competition. I am in charge of the audio/effect for the game. I have been researching some "equalizer effect" took me awhile till me and ken figured out the proper name for it Visualization data.
So i found XNA forum about how to get .mp3 data and use its frequency for neat effects.
So here is a video of a modern equalizer effect on XNA.
-Enjoy

Pyton

So I have been learning and programing in python, just console window style for now.I am learning some new syntax and it is exploding my mind.I find that python is a awesome language!
Simple and fast on what you want to do, I always expected that C# was faster to write but Python beat it to the punch. I am enjoying this language.